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(No Model!) S. E. HARSH.

'BUGKLE.

No. 447,874. Patented Mar. 10,1891.

7' 5 5' X 4 M a UNITED STATEs I PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL E. HARSH, OF \VABASH, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN M. HARTER, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,874, dated March 10, 18 91.

Application filed October 13, 1890. Serial No. 367,962. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. HARsH, of the city of \Vabash, in the county of lVabash and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Hook and Tongue Loop Harness-Buckles and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in buckles.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved buckle exceedingly cheap, simple, and durable in construction and composed of a minimum number of parts, and which can be applied most advantageously for various purposes, and which requires no stitching or riveting of the leather in fastening the same, thereby making the buckle and fastening stronger and more durable and saving in the quantity of leather necessary. These objects are accomplished by and this invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan showing the buckle as in use on buggy-harness for holdbacks, staystraps on poles, spreader-straps, hame-straps, &c. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the buckle and portion of the strap of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the buckle and aportion of a strap when used with trunkstraps, collar-straps, &c. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the buckle. Fig. 5 is a section through straps and two buckles, the righthand buckle being shown as used with chokestraps, with the holding-lug made for a single thickness of leather, return-straps, &c., the

left-hand buckle being shown as used with a' billet-strap. Fig. 6 is a top plan of the buckle.

The buckle is composed of the two parallel corresponding side bars a a, preferably curved up at their ends. At one end these bars are bridge 5, integral with the side bars, and the opposite ends of the side bars are connected by the cross-bar c, integral with said side bars and parallel with bridge I), and bare is preferably rounded, as shown. A cross-bar d is located parallel with, in a plane, below, and near said cross bar 0 and is formed integral with said side bars. Swinging buckle-tongue e is pivotally mounted on said intermediate bar d and rests on end cross-bar c.

f is a bridge or cross-bar integral with the side bars and located between intermediate bar (2 and end bridge I) and in a plane below and parallel with bridge 17. g is a lug extendingcentrally up from said intermediatebridge and formed integral therewith and having its outer end bent substantially at right angles toward end bridge 0, or in the same direction as the buckle-tongue extends, thus forming a hook.

As shown particularly in Figs. 3 and 4:, where two or more thicknesses of leather are to be used on the hooked lug, the cross-bar carrying the same is dropped and located in a plane below the under edges of the side bars, and the hook is thus increased in length when extended up as far as necessary. here but one thickness of leather is to be used on the hooked lug the cross-bar carrying the same can be located flush with the under edges of the side bars.

lVhile the buckle is here described as being formed integral, yet if found practicable it might be made in several sections rigidly united.

The buckle is attached by placing end 7?. of a strap between end bridge I) and the intermediate bridge carrying the hooked lug and passing said lug through an aperture through said strap end. The strap end 46 is secured by passing under end cross-bar d, with the buckle-tongue inserted through an aperture therein and then over the intermediate crossbar and bridge and strap end h and beneath end bridge I).

The various modes of using this buckle are hame to the other, thereby giving a better opportunity for tightening harness.

The buckle can be easily and quickly attached to or detached from straps, as no sewing, stitching, riveting, or fastening of the strapis necessary. Consequently the cost of harness is reduced, the strength and durability of the fastening is increased, and the amount of strap employed reduced.

End cross-bar c for the buckle-tongue can be used with or without a roller for the tongue to rest upon.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described buckle, consisting of the side bars, the two end bars, the intermeset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own inveutionIaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL E. HARsu.

Witnesses:

WARREN BIGLER, JOHN H. DICKEN. 

